Organizations: Pemberville Mental Culture Club (04-30-14)

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PEMBERVILLE – The Mental Culture Club met April 8. Sherrie Sheffler presided over the business meeting
and 18 members answered roll call by naming their favorite beach.
Marcena Bockbrader introduced the speaker for the evening, Lois Trumpler from Fostoria.
She showed a large collection of shells that she had brought. All shells are the homes of mollusks, which
are soft-bodied animals without bones. Mollusks can be found in fresh and salt water, and on land, in
gardens, woods, and even on mountain tops. Over the years island natives, Indians, and pirates have used
shells for jewelry, decorations, communicating, and commerce.
Water pollution has had a negative effect on mollusks. The increased popularity of collecting shells has
made them even more scarce and expensive.
One whole classification of mollusks, the chitons, have become extinct and are only found as fossils.
Hostesses for the evening were Bockbrader and Anne Michel.
The plans for the last meeting of the program year, May 13, are incomplete. Therefore, the club’s
telephone committee will notify each member as soon as the details are finalized.

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